[61510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Fri Aug 29 15:03:26 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:01:22 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <bio7nj$qnn$1@news.cistron.nl>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >But how about this: in addition to MX hosts, every domain also has one
> >or more MO (mail originator) hosts. Mail servers then get to check the
> >address of the SMTP server they're talking to against the DNS records
> >for the domain in the sender's address. Then customers who use an email
> >address under their ISP's domain have to use the ISP's relay, while
> >people with their own (sub) domain get to use their own.
I travel around. I read my email by POP3/IMAP, I use local ISP's SMTP
server for outgoing - surely that means I can't use my own domain for
email?
Simon
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